Just swap their morning joe with decaf. Epidemic averted.
That won't stop the depression, anxiety and eventual health consequences such as high blood pressure and eventual heart attack that will follow from attempting to meet ridiculously unreasonable demands. We have a system whereby many people are in a constant, unnatural state of fight or flight response. As of 2016, the United States has the highest use of anti-depressant medication of any OECD country. That's solid evidence that we have a systemic cultural problem that is leading to large scale health problems for our citizens.
It only sucked because nobody had 8 gigs of RAM and SSD in 2006
Neat, so you're suggesting Microsoft was building an operating system for technology that didn't even exist in 2006. That sounds like an intelligent way to do business. Yes sir, indeed. Go back to your troll cave moron.
Let's go with things we have agreement on, and other things can be addressed later is too rational, and Democrats will block it because it was introduced by a Republican.
Negative. The problem here is that when two sides of a negotiating table have such radically different points of view, the set of things that are mutually agreed upon can be very small if anything at all. Drafting up an agreement based on those points alone can have disastrous ripple effects. In this case, the stakes are very high because the outcome of this issue will affect every American citizen and that is something that is not to be taken lightly. The problem, as is typical in many negotiating situations, one party is purely motivated by self interest while the other party is (hopefully) attempting to find a win/win scenario or at the very least a reasonable compromise.
Here we go again. Trying to tell people how to run their companies, and whom they can do business with.
Absolutely no. We are supporting a level playing field for all businesses to have the same opportunities to grow and thrive not just the few people that had cash to buy politicians to create legal precedent for their special interest.
I disagree. The internet is a critical part of the backbone of our consumption-based economy. If there are not safe guards in place for the internet as a public utility to protect the market then we are at risk of damaging the entire economic market (possibly causing yet another recession) in order to provide special treatment to a small amount of participants namely Comcast, AT&T and Time Warner.
This IS a public concern over the general welfare for all people and all businesses the same as clean drinking water and electricity is. It must be protected to provide for the general welfare of everyone not just a few special interests.
The megacorps won't be very negatively affected by a tiered Internet, they could even benefit. They'll get shaken down by ISPs, but in return they'll receive massive barriers to entry, protecting their empires from any scrappy new startups forever.
Any additional costs that megacorps encounter will be passed down to consumers. Business as usual.
People taking out second mortgages to buy Bitcoin when it has peaked and a bubble is imminent? The time to buy was months ago if you had the money. Is this going to result in the next foreclosure crisis? That would be ironic. The root cause would be risky investments but of a different sort.
Blasphemy! Women are supposed to have successful careers sticking it to The Man, not spending their time helping raise the next generation! They're wasting their talent if they're staying home teaching their children to read, write, and be responsible individuals!
Makes it incredibly difficult to take the "no child left behind" mantra seriously doesn't it? Latch key kids. It worked so well in the 80's...
Well, except in the IT field, if you are out of the business for 4-6 years, then you can't really reenter again very easily. Your skills unless you at the top of your field when you left are out of date. Most industries aren't that brutal.
This is very true! And this is a problem for stay at home Moms who leave the workforce for several years. It is indeed hard for them to re-enter without doing an internship or something. It depends on at what point of their career they left and how much experience they had at that point.
If this was the primary explanation, then every field would have the same gender disparity.
Every field does have SOME gender disparity going both ways, more women, less men and more men, less women. Show me a field where there is perfect gender parity over time.
Honestly, quite a few women that I worked with left the field to become stay at home Mom's. Usually, the husband was the bread winner so when it came to the weighing of super expensive daycare and wages, it was purely a rational decision to optimize income/expenses of the household. That's something that doesn't get reported enough. A lot of women either don't want to go into STEM or don't want to stay in those positions for various reasons that don't have to do with discrimination.
So, you honestly think the other professions out there spend their own time learning completely new things on their own time? If a company wants continuity of service, and an effective IT, then they need to have training plans, with time and budget allocated to keeping staff current in the necessary technologies. OTherwise staff end up effectively doing work for free, and paying for it themselves. That works very nicely for a corporate bottom line, but is terrible for working for said corporation and actually having a life.
Correct, if you want to make the big bucks, you have to make an investment. If you don't want to do that and just want to whine about it then by all means go work in food service or retail. Even in the auto mechanic space there are vocational schools. You can't just walk into a shop and get a job and expect the job to pay for your vocational schooling. Companies are obligated to provide training but the training the need to provide is on their business and their systems and how they work. They are not obligated to provide you with a general education. That's what training, books, college, vocational schools, etc. are for.
People will keep on wanting more shit even as we find ways of making it ever more quickly and at lower costs and probably will until we find some way to alter our brain chemistry.
This is very true. The things you own end up owning you and it's the basis for modern sales and advertising. We just can't flock to these things fast enough due to fomo. We, as a species, are largely deranged. We wonder why we live in such a way that we have little or no freedom and are obligated to spend most of it doing shit we would never choose to do and we don't realize we are the enablers of the system that causes this...
If you are a Journeyman in the field of IT, people don't train and update your knowledge, you do it for yourself. People who are good at this trade are also good at educating themselves and learning in general. People who aren't good at it might get a little better with training but they were probably not very good to begin with.
Well you seem to be saying that language designers / implementers have no culpability at all.
For your metaphor, what if the person building the house is using a rubber mallet, rusted nails and broken wood?
No, you missed the point. If someone builds something that is unstable with a hammer and nails, is the manufacturer of the hammer and nails liable for it. NO. A thousand times NO. Take your nanny state and shove it up your liberal ass.
Programming languages don't write insecure applications, people do.
Next thing I suppose we'll arrive at is if someone builds a structurally insecure apparatus with a hammer, nails and wood, I suppose it will be the hammer's fault for being a bad tool and we'll need to consider not using hammers anymore?
Humans have an uncanny ability to evade culpability in clever ways.
It seems hard to believe now, but I find it kind of compelling because in the absence of any compelling evidence/information/communication to the contrary it seems like the "voice in your head" could possibly be thought of as a separate entity or at least something different than your animal impulses.
I'd go with animal impulses but in my case, I don't have any spontaneous/autonomous voices. I can purposefully do "think talk" to work through a thought process. Everyone can do that and control what the thoughts are. Those who have a voice occur spontaneously and can't control it have symptoms of schizophrenia.
AC troll. Can't even be bothered to ask what my educational background is and immediately jump to the presupposition that my science background is solely composed of watching a couple episodes. I have two words for you: FUCK YOU
If you buy into any of the bicameral mind concept, it wasn't even much of an idea to form religions. They just didn't know any better because their assumed their voice of consciousness was a religious deity.
For people like me that have a fairly high degree of mental discipline with regard to regulating thoughts and emotions to direct them purposefully, it is hard for me to imagine people who may have thought like that or possibly still do. But I can see that may have played a factor and might explain some human behavior we still observe today. I can make any voice speak in my head in any way I decide. I could have Bugs Bunny read Shakespeare or I can have silence and it requires a negligible amount of effort. It's all determined by what I decide to think about. I don't really know any other form of thought so it is difficult for me to imagine others who lack the mental to discipline to do what I have always done... This is probably why I prefer to be alone because it's peaceful and I enjoy silence or perhaps I enjoy the absence of mental chatter so I can hear the wind, birds and other sounds more clearly.
On the contrary, budgets are very relevant to nature. All life has to maintain a nitrogen budget, for example. And while humans have had a severe effect on the carbon budget in the atmosphere, it existed long before humans did.
We have a null hypothesis here. Some living creatures regulate nitrogen usage. You are claiming that there is a connection between that natural process and the anthropmorphic concept of a "budget" yet you haven't demonstrated any evidence to establish the connection. Surely you are familiar with the Null Hypothesis correct? It would be more correct to say that these are natural processes that aren't really all the orderly compared the order that human beings strive for and imagine in their minds.
This is a common mistake and it's because by default humans want to project themselves onto other natural processes. We are a very small part of things and the majority of the universe is not anything like us. This is the nature of man's anthropomorphic arrogance.
Yes, I've heard of it. It isn't relevant. The Earth is not a closed system (as it is constantly receiving massive amounts of energy from the Sun).And as the OP said, "increasing amount of available energy". There is no Law of Conservation of Available Energy, particularly in a system that is not closed.
The fact that you didn't mention the universe itself in this comment seems to indicate a lack of science education. I fear it would not be productive for me to pose to you a question about available energy in the context of the universe for fear that you would respond with another nonsense proposition that seems to owe to a lack of science education.
If you want a better understanding of the universe and physics, watch Cosmos especially the old episodes with Carl Sagan. He can educate you much better than I can. It's a shame he is no longer with us.
The important take-away here is: (Bronze age) Mankind a bit cleverer than we thought it was
Oh we already knew how clever Bronze Age man was. They invented very sophisticated superstition to brain-wash and enslave massive groups of people. Making Bronze Age weapons from iron ore meteorites is nothing... well I suppose it helped them fight tribal wars based on said superstition.
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Just swap their morning joe with decaf. Epidemic averted.
That won't stop the depression, anxiety and eventual health consequences such as high blood pressure and eventual heart attack that will follow from attempting to meet ridiculously unreasonable demands. We have a system whereby many people are in a constant, unnatural state of fight or flight response. As of 2016, the United States has the highest use of anti-depressant medication of any OECD country. That's solid evidence that we have a systemic cultural problem that is leading to large scale health problems for our citizens.
It only sucked because nobody had 8 gigs of RAM and SSD in 2006
Neat, so you're suggesting Microsoft was building an operating system for technology that didn't even exist in 2006. That sounds like an intelligent way to do business. Yes sir, indeed. Go back to your troll cave moron.
Let's go with things we have agreement on, and other things can be addressed later is too rational, and Democrats will block it because it was introduced by a Republican.
Negative. The problem here is that when two sides of a negotiating table have such radically different points of view, the set of things that are mutually agreed upon can be very small if anything at all. Drafting up an agreement based on those points alone can have disastrous ripple effects. In this case, the stakes are very high because the outcome of this issue will affect every American citizen and that is something that is not to be taken lightly. The problem, as is typical in many negotiating situations, one party is purely motivated by self interest while the other party is (hopefully) attempting to find a win/win scenario or at the very least a reasonable compromise.
Here we go again. Trying to tell people how to run their companies, and whom they can do business with.
Absolutely no. We are supporting a level playing field for all businesses to have the same opportunities to grow and thrive not just the few people that had cash to buy politicians to create legal precedent for their special interest.
We don't need ISP to be regulated as utilities
I disagree. The internet is a critical part of the backbone of our consumption-based economy. If there are not safe guards in place for the internet as a public utility to protect the market then we are at risk of damaging the entire economic market (possibly causing yet another recession) in order to provide special treatment to a small amount of participants namely Comcast, AT&T and Time Warner.
This IS a public concern over the general welfare for all people and all businesses the same as clean drinking water and electricity is. It must be protected to provide for the general welfare of everyone not just a few special interests.
Windows 10
Windows Vista. FTFY
Some of you may have noticed that California is, has been, and likely will continue to be on fire. This is driving people out of the state.
That seems like a perfectly reasonable response to me...
The megacorps won't be very negatively affected by a tiered Internet, they could even benefit. They'll get shaken down by ISPs, but in return they'll receive massive barriers to entry, protecting their empires from any scrappy new startups forever.
Any additional costs that megacorps encounter will be passed down to consumers. Business as usual.
People taking out second mortgages to buy Bitcoin when it has peaked and a bubble is imminent? The time to buy was months ago if you had the money. Is this going to result in the next foreclosure crisis? That would be ironic. The root cause would be risky investments but of a different sort.
Blasphemy! Women are supposed to have successful careers sticking it to The Man, not spending their time helping raise the next generation! They're wasting their talent if they're staying home teaching their children to read, write, and be responsible individuals!
Makes it incredibly difficult to take the "no child left behind" mantra seriously doesn't it? Latch key kids. It worked so well in the 80's...
Well, except in the IT field, if you are out of the business for 4-6 years, then you can't really reenter again very easily. Your skills unless you at the top of your field when you left are out of date. Most industries aren't that brutal.
This is very true! And this is a problem for stay at home Moms who leave the workforce for several years. It is indeed hard for them to re-enter without doing an internship or something. It depends on at what point of their career they left and how much experience they had at that point.
If this was the primary explanation, then every field would have the same gender disparity.
Every field does have SOME gender disparity going both ways, more women, less men and more men, less women. Show me a field where there is perfect gender parity over time.
probably are retired actually
Honestly, quite a few women that I worked with left the field to become stay at home Mom's. Usually, the husband was the bread winner so when it came to the weighing of super expensive daycare and wages, it was purely a rational decision to optimize income/expenses of the household. That's something that doesn't get reported enough. A lot of women either don't want to go into STEM or don't want to stay in those positions for various reasons that don't have to do with discrimination.
So, you honestly think the other professions out there spend their own time learning completely new things on their own time? If a company wants continuity of service, and an effective IT, then they need to have training plans, with time and budget allocated to keeping staff current in the necessary technologies. OTherwise staff end up effectively doing work for free, and paying for it themselves. That works very nicely for a corporate bottom line, but is terrible for working for said corporation and actually having a life.
Correct, if you want to make the big bucks, you have to make an investment. If you don't want to do that and just want to whine about it then by all means go work in food service or retail. Even in the auto mechanic space there are vocational schools. You can't just walk into a shop and get a job and expect the job to pay for your vocational schooling. Companies are obligated to provide training but the training the need to provide is on their business and their systems and how they work. They are not obligated to provide you with a general education. That's what training, books, college, vocational schools, etc. are for.
People will keep on wanting more shit even as we find ways of making it ever more quickly and at lower costs and probably will until we find some way to alter our brain chemistry.
This is very true. The things you own end up owning you and it's the basis for modern sales and advertising. We just can't flock to these things fast enough due to fomo. We, as a species, are largely deranged. We wonder why we live in such a way that we have little or no freedom and are obligated to spend most of it doing shit we would never choose to do and we don't realize we are the enablers of the system that causes this...
If you are a Journeyman in the field of IT, people don't train and update your knowledge, you do it for yourself. People who are good at this trade are also good at educating themselves and learning in general. People who aren't good at it might get a little better with training but they were probably not very good to begin with.
Well you seem to be saying that language designers / implementers have no culpability at all.
For your metaphor, what if the person building the house is using a rubber mallet, rusted nails and broken wood?
No, you missed the point. If someone builds something that is unstable with a hammer and nails, is the manufacturer of the hammer and nails liable for it. NO. A thousand times NO. Take your nanny state and shove it up your liberal ass.
Programming languages don't write insecure applications, people do.
Next thing I suppose we'll arrive at is if someone builds a structurally insecure apparatus with a hammer, nails and wood, I suppose it will be the hammer's fault for being a bad tool and we'll need to consider not using hammers anymore?
Humans have an uncanny ability to evade culpability in clever ways.
Oh my, well thank you for blessing us lowly plebes on /. with a description of your amazing mental capabilities. ...
Thank you for such a wonderful contribution to the discussion
It seems hard to believe now, but I find it kind of compelling because in the absence of any compelling evidence/information/communication to the contrary it seems like the "voice in your head" could possibly be thought of as a separate entity or at least something different than your animal impulses.
I'd go with animal impulses but in my case, I don't have any spontaneous/autonomous voices. I can purposefully do "think talk" to work through a thought process. Everyone can do that and control what the thoughts are. Those who have a voice occur spontaneously and can't control it have symptoms of schizophrenia.
AC troll. Can't even be bothered to ask what my educational background is and immediately jump to the presupposition that my science background is solely composed of watching a couple episodes. I have two words for you: FUCK YOU
If you buy into any of the bicameral mind concept, it wasn't even much of an idea to form religions. They just didn't know any better because their assumed their voice of consciousness was a religious deity.
For people like me that have a fairly high degree of mental discipline with regard to regulating thoughts and emotions to direct them purposefully, it is hard for me to imagine people who may have thought like that or possibly still do. But I can see that may have played a factor and might explain some human behavior we still observe today. I can make any voice speak in my head in any way I decide. I could have Bugs Bunny read Shakespeare or I can have silence and it requires a negligible amount of effort. It's all determined by what I decide to think about. I don't really know any other form of thought so it is difficult for me to imagine others who lack the mental to discipline to do what I have always done... This is probably why I prefer to be alone because it's peaceful and I enjoy silence or perhaps I enjoy the absence of mental chatter so I can hear the wind, birds and other sounds more clearly.
On the contrary, budgets are very relevant to nature. All life has to maintain a nitrogen budget, for example. And while humans have had a severe effect on the carbon budget in the atmosphere, it existed long before humans did.
We have a null hypothesis here. Some living creatures regulate nitrogen usage. You are claiming that there is a connection between that natural process and the anthropmorphic concept of a "budget" yet you haven't demonstrated any evidence to establish the connection. Surely you are familiar with the Null Hypothesis correct? It would be more correct to say that these are natural processes that aren't really all the orderly compared the order that human beings strive for and imagine in their minds.
This is a common mistake and it's because by default humans want to project themselves onto other natural processes. We are a very small part of things and the majority of the universe is not anything like us. This is the nature of man's anthropomorphic arrogance.
Yes, I've heard of it. It isn't relevant. The Earth is not a closed system (as it is constantly receiving massive amounts of energy from the Sun) .And as the OP said, "increasing amount of available energy". There is no Law of Conservation of Available Energy, particularly in a system that is not closed.
The fact that you didn't mention the universe itself in this comment seems to indicate a lack of science education. I fear it would not be productive for me to pose to you a question about available energy in the context of the universe for fear that you would respond with another nonsense proposition that seems to owe to a lack of science education. If you want a better understanding of the universe and physics, watch Cosmos especially the old episodes with Carl Sagan. He can educate you much better than I can. It's a shame he is no longer with us.
The important take-away here is: (Bronze age) Mankind a bit cleverer than we thought it was
Oh we already knew how clever Bronze Age man was. They invented very sophisticated superstition to brain-wash and enslave massive groups of people. Making Bronze Age weapons from iron ore meteorites is nothing... well I suppose it helped them fight tribal wars based on said superstition.
Yes, it all ultimately came from the same place. So did every f-ing thing. Why do we bother to talk about anything?
Because humans like to talk about how awesome they are and celebrate themselves. On occasion we even make statues of ourselves to admire. ;)